From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 11 9:50:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20B6915578; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 09:50:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA02636; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 12:49:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 12:49:28 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Nate Williams Cc: Warner Losh , Peter Wemm , Cameron Grant , multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: it's time... In-Reply-To: <199908111634.KAA28760@mt.sri.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Nate Williams wrote: > The most common case for a console is an 80 column wide console (this is > the default for the virtual terminals, most printers, most text > terminals, etc..) > > Changing it is silly, and non-standard. The line wrapping stuff I brought back for the EISA bus stuff in -current makes it easy to define the wrap point. If some small number of people want the ability to wrap at 132 or 40 or whatever, I don't think its unreasonable to provide them the knob to tweak in the boot loader. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message